Silly horror film about an exceptionally vicious group of piranhas that attack spring breakers at Lake Victoria. Combining blatant 80s-style nudity with the movie Jaws, this action thriller fails to inspire fear as it goes for the laughs at every turn. As a parody, there are indeed some funny bits, but it’s too self-aware of its own campiness. The cynicism gets a little tiresome after awhile. From the actors, there are no performances, just random attractive 20-somethings being devoured for 90 minutes. As a result, there is no sympathy for the personality-free victims. The cartoonish violence reaches an apex when a girl’s face gets ripped off as her hair gets caught in the propeller of a motorboat. A better title would have been When Animals Attack Girls Gone Wild. Remake of the original 1978 film Piranha.
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I got a few chuckles, but wanted so much more. Not enough 3-d effects. What I thought was hilarious, was, how do two women swim naked in an underwater scene for 10minutes, without breathing.
“When Animals Attack Girls Gone Wild”. LOL.